With the DgitalMonet installation work, Napoleon Brousseau has taken on two tasks, one involves the reconstruction of Claude Monet’s 1873 painting “Poppies at Argenteuil”, while documenting the evolution of the work by recombining stamped pixels in oils on canvas to create a distance painting, an impression of the original painting.
The second task involved the combining of various digital documentation into an ambient film loop, that explores the act of seeing. The serial aspects of Dgital Monet are in the documentation, which expands the process, buried beneath layers of color and shape choices done over a period of two months. Dgital Monet is a movie painting that is meditative and participatory all at the same time: this pastoral painting captures the essence of the visual choices made in the act of painting. Brousseau is working, in the vital spark-gap where nature and technology collide, collude, contradict one ...
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With the DgitalMonet installation work, Napoleon Brousseau has taken on two tasks, one involves the reconstruction of Claude Monet’s 1873 painting “Poppies at Argenteuil”, while documenting the evolution of the work by recombining stamped pixels in oils on canvas to create a distance painting, an impression of the original painting.
The second task involved the combining of various digital documentation into an ambient film loop, that explores the act of seeing. The serial aspects of Dgital Monet are in the documentation, which expands the process, buried beneath layers of color and shape choices done over a period of two months. Dgital Monet is a movie painting that is meditative and participatory all at the same time: this pastoral painting captures the essence of the visual choices made in the act of painting. Brousseau is working, in the vital spark-gap where nature and technology collide, collude, contradict one another, enhance one another and come to rest, in the end, as this new synthetic exploration
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- Year Created: 2004
- Submitted to ArtBase: Sunday Nov 21st, 2004
- Original Url: http://www.brewsoul.com/html/dgitalmonet.htm
- Permalink: http://www.brewsoul.com/html/dgitalmonet.htm
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Work Credits:
- napoleon brousseau, creator
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